Today was geek day. My new drive from Other World Computing came 200 gigs or 7200 rpm goodness, yummy. I took out my drive and all the tools I needed (so I thought) and began by formatting and installing OSX. That wasn’t too painful. Then I began to take apart the case of my Macbook Pro. Tiny screw by tiny screw. Damn this thing has lots of teeny tiny screws. Twenty seven in total. The whole case was apart and now I removed the hard drive.
Now I am taking apart the screws on the hard drive itself with the little rubber bumpers… geeze where is my torx 6? I can’t find my torx 6. 9:45 pm — Everything is closed.
This is what it looked like.
I can figure this out. I get a small hex driver and I can get three of the screws out. I can’t get the fourth and I don’t want to strip the screw. Emergency geek friend call. Driving to George’s house at 10 pm. I get the torx 6 and buy an extra hard drive case he happened to have around. Got the screw out and heading back downtown.
The rest of the story… I’m writing this post on my machine with my new hard drive.
Tags: macbookpro, birthday, apple, memory, DIY
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